American Wings Soar Around the World
Africans Gaze in Awe at Old Glory as a Clipper Roars over Bolama, Portuguese Guinea
Pride of Pan American Airways, this big Boeing-made ship and her sisters rescued thousands stranded by
war in Europe and Africa. PAA men endured heat, malaria, snakes, and scorpions to build the ferry's sky
path across Africa. This aerial road delivered many of the bombers that flattened the Axis in Tunisia.